Description
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This is the Perl 5 News-Scan distribution. It requires perl version 5.004
or later.
This distribution provides a mechanism for collecting articles from a
set of Usenet newsgroups and then creating statistical reports about
those groups.
IMPORTANT!!! IMPORTANT!!! IMPORTANT!!! IMPORTANT!!! IMPORTANT!!!
IMPORTANT!!! IMPORTANT!!! IMPORTANT!!! IMPORTANT!!! IMPORTANT!!!
This release of News-Scan is incompatible with prior releases. This
should be considered alpha-quality software, so the internal
implementation is subject to change without notice, although I will
only make incompatible changes only when absolutely necessary.
Prerequisites
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To use NewsScan, you need to have installed the following packages:
TimeDate-#.##
MailTools#.##
IO-#.##
If you want to collect articles from an NNTP server, you'll also need
to install
libnet-#.##
Installation
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Install NewsScan by running the following commands:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make install
Examples
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Please see the eg/ directory after you have unpacked the distribution
for examples of using this library to gather and report statistics for
Usenet newsgroups.
Bugs, Problems, Suggestions
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Please send any suggestions, bug reports, complaints, et cetera to
Greg Bacon .
Acknowledgements
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This software is based on Mike Lee's posters
distribution and also on software posted to comp.lang.perl.misc
by Christian Murphy .
Many, many thanks are also in order to Gary Niemcewicz
for all his helpful thoughts, comments, and bug reports.
Chaim Frenkel has also contributed immensely with his
extremely helpful comments, suggestions, and questions.
Thanks to Henrik Gemal, Gerrit P. Haase, and Oyvind Gronnesby for
helpful suggestions and bug reports.
Copyright
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Copyright (c) 1997-2002 Greg Bacon.
This library is free software; you can distribute and/or modify it under
the same terms as Perl itself.